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Patients often have a number of questions regarding changes in their hair. This chapter contains the most common questions patients ask as well as the answers to these questions. The chapter discusses basic information about hair growth and loss; age-related hair problems; effect of nutrition and lifestyle choices on hair; specific diagnoses including androgenetic alopecia, alopecia areata, cicatricial alopecia, and seborrheic dermatitis; and, finally, common treatment questions.

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Burroway, B., Griggs, J., Tosti, A. (2020). Most Common Patient Hair Questions and Answers. In: Tosti, A., Asz-Sigall, D., Pirmez, R. (eds) Hair and Scalp Treatments. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21555-2_21

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